Quite a list! Certainly puts my mini-network to shame.

Why so many on Win95 and Win95B?
(Win95C is nicely stable so long as you don't clobber the 64kBytes
resources hard limits.)

How do the Mandrake and Suse distributions compare (briefly)?

And have you tried the V3.03 i386-winnt-cmdline under Wine on Linux?
(I've found it works very well.)

Well, at the beginning, I was "Windows only", since the first Linux experiments were
painful failures at that time ;)

Win95 Licenses were dirt cheap already back then, so I got a whole bunch of those off
Ebay.
As I looked for small HD's, Win95A with it's FAT16 limit was not a big factor.

The currently used Mandrake and SuSE Installations don't differ much in speed I think
(since their Hosts are very different machines, no direct comparison possible). Overall,
they would be about 10% slower than a comparable Windows installation with SETI, but they
can nicely recover that by taking care of the VLAR Units, if present :o)

Personally, I think Mandrake is much more "straight forward", smart and nice to
Install/Operate, while SuSE comes with all the "bells and whistles". In the end, one has
to clean it (SuSE) up on Console level anyway, but not so much with Mandrake (which I
prefer).

Since I want to slowly get rid of Windows, I never intended use WINE or similar
approaches; the native Linux was just fine "as is" ;)

After the R8000 (arrived today :) ), I might look into a SUN and a HP-PA System to make
the collection of non-x86 machines complete. Those run only because I wanted to learn to
operate/maintain something beyond the x86 horizon, but I love each one of 'em; they offer
a great deal of learning experience ;)

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